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Prosecutors said all four were bludgeoned with a statue, stabbed and stomped on.

Bechard was committed to what was then Augusta Mental Health Institute, now Riverview Psychiatric Hospital.

Kennebec County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney confirmed with WMTW News 8 that a judge has allowed Bechard to be unsupervised in the community for up to two hours a day.

Maloney said Bechard is allowed to walk to a store to go shopping and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, among other things.

Maloney said she objected to the judge's ruling.

"There was some testimony about his behavior in December becoming a bit erratic, that he was imaging there were people in his room that weren't there. That there were people watching him and coming into his room at night and (he was) having a lot of difficulty sleeping and using excessive amounts of caffeine, and that testimony was given on the stand in open court and I believe shows some reason for concern," said Maloney.

The nuns who survived the attack have since died. But Mother Superior Josephine Roney of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in Waterville said Bechard has been forgiven and said, “We respect the decisions of the court, and we keep all those involved in prayer. We pray for Mark Bechard and all the people concerned.”

Jesyka Clark said she worries about her 6-year-old daughter and all the other children that play in the nearby apartment complex.

"It scares me and I don't want to let my daughter outdoors now. There's kids that play here all the time. It's it two hours. You can do a lot, come right down here, park right there, where the kids are, do whatever," said Clark.